Snakes were collected and rolled before being put into the oven on Sunday in the village of Kertasura, Cirebon, Indonesia. Snake skins measuring in the hundreds of meters are sold to factories in the West and Central Java provinces monthly to be made into bags, shoes, wallets and belts.

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Queen of Percussion Evelyn Bastos of Mangueira celebrated during a parade at the 2014 Brazilian Carnival at Sapucai Sambadrome on Sunday in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Rio’s two nights of Carnival parades started in a burst of fireworks to the cheers of thousands of tourists and residents.

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A boy collected waste plastic from the Buriganga River on Sunday in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Indiscriminate discharge of liquid waste by tanneries has ruined a large part of the river, hurting people living along its banks.

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A woman kissed a Ukrainian serviceman through a gate on Monday in the village of Lyubimovka near a local airfield, some 80 km (50 miles) southwest of Simferopol, Crimea.

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A man took part in the Carnaval del Toro (Carnival of the Bull) on Monday in Ciudad Rodrigo, near Salamanca, in northwestern Spain.

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A child took part in an experiment at the Birkbeck Babylab Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development in London on Monday.

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Revelers threw talcum powder over each other during carnival in Santa Cruz de la Palma in the Canary Islands on Monday.

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A model presented a creation by designer Iris van Herpen on Tuesday.

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A mother sat with her baby on her bed in a women’s shelter in Berlin on Tuesday.

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Troops under Russian command fired weapons into the air and screamed orders to turn back at a group of unarmed Ukrainian troops who tried to retake the Belbek air base in Lubimovka, Ukraine, Tuesday.

Sahara group chairman Subrata Roy was assaulted by an unidentified man, who threw ink at the businessman upon his arrival at the Supreme Court in New Delhi on Tuesday. Roy and two other Sahara directors were ordered jailed until next week, by which time the court said they should have a plan to repay billions of dollars owed to the conglomerate’s investors.

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Wrestlers practiced at a traditional Indian wrestling center in Mumbai on Tuesday. Kushti (mud wrestling) is a traditional sport in India.

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People rescued a horse that fell in a pit in Jalandhar, in the northern Indian state of Punjab, on Wednesday.

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Rep. Darrell Issa (R., Calif.), right, cut off Rep. Elijah Cummings (D., Md.) during a House hearing on the IRS on Wednesday. The hearing ended in acrimony as Mr. Cummings accused Republicans of a “one-sided investigation” and GOP members walked out.

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A woman milked a cow in a makeshift camp in South Sudan on Wednesday. Gunfire erupted at a major military base in the South Sudanese capital of Juba on Wednesday after troops mutinied over unpaid salaries, an indication of worsening economic strife as the world’s youngest nation struggles to contain a nearly three-month-old conflict.

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Local women watched armed men, believed to be Russian soldiers, assemble near a Ukrainian military base in Perevalnoe, in Crimea, on Wednesday.

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A delegate slept Wednesday during the opening session of the National People’s Congress in Beijing.

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An employee cleaned the model of a dead Triceratops at the Dinosaur Park in Kleinwelka near Bautzen, eastern Germany, on Wednesday for the park’s postwinter reopening in April.

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Some attendees sported a different look at the American Conservative Union Conference, an annual meeting of politically conservative Americans, on Thursday, in National Harbor, Wash.

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People posed for pictures with Wayne Garrett and Caitlind Brown of Canada’s light installation “CLOUD” during a media preview of the i Light Marina Bay festival in Singapore on Thursday.

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A dog owner held her dog on first day of Crufts dog show at the NEC on Thursday in Birmingham, England. The annual four-day event features thousands of dogs, with competitors from across the globe taking part.

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A mother carried a boy as she arrived to receive her free medical checkup on Thursday at an event called “My Body My Rights,” which was organized by the Amnesty International in Nuwakot, Nepal.